Fitchburg

Venture Forum in Worcester and the North Central Massachusetts Development Corporation in Fitchburg were chosen by the Innovation Institute at the MassTech Collaborative to receive two of its grants to bolster the regional startup economy.

The North Central Massachusetts Development Corp. has loaned $35,000 loan to startup Soto Hydraulic Repair in Winchendon for new equipment.

The more than 30-acre Twin City Shopping Center off of Route 2 on the Fitchburg-Leominster border has been sold to a Boston investment firm for $24 million.

Here’s all 264 professionals who has been named to a Power list & the year(s) they were listed.

Business professionals from organizations of all types and sizes hold some amount of power, but how you shape the economy and community is when you are truly influential.

As downtown revitalization efforts in Fitchburg are beginning to materialize, two pairs of local business owners opened new restaurants on Main Street in March and April.

Four organizations in Central Massachusetts received grants totaling more than $264,000 to help expand the collection of mattresses, textiles, and food materials as part of the Commonwealth Recycling and Reuse Business Development Grant program on Thursday.

Fitchburg State University received $500,000 from a National Endowment for the Humanities Challenge Grant to support the construction of a 250-seat black box theater adjacent to a historic theater in downtown Fitchburg.

The Massachusetts Biotechnology Council rates the state’s various communities as BioReady based on their ability to host biotechnology facilities.

Developers and brokers are using multiple strategies to bring life sciences companies out past Route 128 in Massachusetts.